AN EGYPTIAN STEATITE OFFERING SPOON

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN STEATITE OFFERING SPOON
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
The bowl carved as the body of a trussed gazelle with its legs tied across its stomach, carried on the head of a man wearing a short wig, his hands grasping the animal around the horns and the haunch
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) long

Provenance

Collection of George Ortiz, Switzerland.
with Heinz Herzer, Munich.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above prior to 1985.

Exhibited

Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägypischer Kunst, Entdeckungen, Ägyptische Kunst in Süddeutschland, 30 August-6 October 1985.
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung; Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst Munchen; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, 1992-1993.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Schoske & Wildung, 1985, p. 121, no. 102.
Schoske & Wildung, 1993, p. 238, no. 130a.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 169, no. R-511.

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